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City of Munich pays #libexpat (a fast streaming XML parser) maintainer for 6 months as part of their Open Source Sabbatical program.

„Technically, I am being employed by digital@M now for of up 6 months with a regular working contract, including cancellation by either party, remotely from home. There is plenty to do.“

Thank you, #Munich.

https://blog.hartwork.org/posts/libexpat-city-of-munich-open-source-sabbatical/

🚀🎉 Breaking #news, folks! The City of #Munich has decided to make history by sponsoring the riveting field of #XML #parsing for a whopping six months! 🙄 Watch out world, because with this groundbreaking investment, #libexpat will surely redefine the universe of open-source boredom. 🌐💤
https://blog.hartwork.org/posts/libexpat-city-of-munich-open-source-sabbatical/ #OpenSource #HackerNews #ngated

libexpat now funded by the City of Munich for up to 6 months

https://blog.hartwork.org/posts/libexpat-city-of-munich-open-source-sabbatical/

Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49176606

#HackerNews #libexpat #Munich #funding #open #source #development #sabbatical #technology #innovation

@bagder @icing The #libexpat project is following the curl lead and have started today until 1st August.

https://github.com/libexpat/libexpat/issues/1277

#libexpat 2.7.1 has been released (#Expat / #XML / #CVE / #SecurityVulnerability) https://libexpat.github.io/

Recursion kills: The story behind CVE-2024-8176 in libexpat

https://blog.hartwork.org/posts/expat-2-7-0-released/

#HackerNews #Recursion #libexpat #CVE20248176 #security #vulnerability #programming

There are several security vulnerabilities in #XAMPP (#Apache #ApacheHTTPd #PHP #Perl #MySQL #MariaDB #OpenSSL #phpMyAdmin #Curl #Tomcat #libexpat), I have done the official announcement, please share! (#ApacheFriends #Bitrock #Bitnami #VMware #Broadcom) https://github.com/Neustradamus/xampp

Oh, my! https://libexpat.github.io/doc/users/ yes, many of these projects are insignificant or obsolete, but what remains! If these got broken! Oh, sh*! #FLOSS #libexpat #SBOM #vulnerability #XML

Unpopular opinion: If your hobby is responsible for running the modern world, you deserve to be paid a living wage for running it.

#xz #expat #libexpat

Any experienced C developers among my followers? #BoostsWelcome.

Expat, arguably the world's most popular #XML parser, is understaffed and without funding. As #xz has shown, situations like this are dangerous.

Last month, maintainer Sebastian Pipping put up a plea for help at https://github.com/libexpat/libexpat/blob/R_2_6_2/expat/Changes

(I would help myself, but my C skills barely surpass "Hello, World".)

Found via @timbray - https://cosocial.ca/@timbray/112203547801373427

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